...The Four Musicians of Bremen In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, were soon to be discarded or mistreated by their masters. One by one they leave their homes and set out together. They decide to go to Bremen, known for its freedom, to live without owners and become musicians there. On the way to Bremen, they see a lighted cottage; they look inside and see four robbers enjoying their ill-gotten gains. Standing on each others backs, they decide to perform for the men in hope of gaining food. Their 'music' has an unanticipated effect; the men run for their lives, not knowing what the strange sound is. The animals take possession of the house, eat a good meal, and settle in for the evening. Later that night, the robbers return and send one of their members in to investigate. It is dark and he sees the eyes of the Cat shining in the darkness. He reaches over to light his candle, thinking he sees the coals of the fire. Things happen in quick succession; the Cat swipes his face with her claws, the Donkey picks up his hooves and kicks him, the Dog bites him on the leg, and the Rooster crows and chases him out the door, screaming. He tells his companions that he was beset by a horrible witch who scratched him with her long fingers (the Cat), a man with a knife (the Dog), a monster who had hit him with a club (the Donkey), and worst of all, the devil who screamed from the rooftop (the Rooster)...
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...ry Freedom is based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist. The story plays in November 1975 in the south-east of South Africa in the city East London. In this city Donald Woods is an editor of the Daily Dispatch. One morning he gets news of a police raid in the black township Crossroads which lies in Cape Town in the south-west of South Africa. To this news he also gets photos of the raid and he desides to print them although the government does not allow to print such photos.The story plays in November 1975 in the south-east of South Africa in the city East London. In this city Donald Woods is an editor of the Daily Dispatch. One morning he gets news of a police raid in the black township Crossroads which lies in Cape Town in the south-west of South Africa. To this news he also gets photos of the raid and he desides to print them although the government doesn't allow to print such photos. Woods does not believe the demand of the black people but he is trained as a lawyer and does not like police brutality against black people. This book promises to be an honest account of the turmoil in South Africa and a story of a black activist, but it turns into a usual cliffhanger about the editor's flight across the border. In my view, whites...
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...crazy hearts which beat for what they stand for and for their fellow brothers. And one of them is Malala Yousafzai. Everything is right in front of us, yet we fail to understand!! But there is this God, whom one have never seen and there they walk into a black hole in search of what is within.Is this what is called "Search that never ends"??!!Forgive me, If I was rude.. There they lay comfortably with their blanket of Religion,Race and so on, wrapped around them so tight.....that it has blinded their eyes!! "If you shoot, I die in a minute. If you love, I die every second seeking it" Where is life taking us??Why was I born??Why cant I change things??Why was I born as a girl??!! Cries a small heart... Miles away from her!! Never met her in this life of mine!! Yet her cry is heard!!! Are we ignorant of our intelligence, our capacity to empathize or are we pretending to be Ignorant ??!!I don't see the point in knowing, feeling and then not acting!!??!! Are we ignorant of our intelligence, our capacity to empathize or are we pretending to be Ignorant ??!!I don't see the point in knowing, feeling and then not acting!!??!! Education gives intelligence. Intelligence to pay respect, to love, to share and to let live. I don't see her neither do I hear her words nor can I understand her language Yet I sense her. May be this is what she wants to say, "If Seeking Education is a crime,...
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...for the evening while drinking from our goblets. During this time of the year it is difficult keeping warm, so we typically stay near the fire our food was cooked on after exiting the mead hall in the evenings. I was thinking that my parents would slumber soon, hopefully soon enough my mate could greet me where we normally meet – nearly a mile away from my humble abode past the courtyard. I know my parents are asleep...
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...Rudek Spinos !7 November 2015 Discovering Self-Identity As we grow older and become more aware of the social world, we often find ourselves learning and changing different preferences. Often times, this includes small quirks such as different foods we might have enjoyed at some point but grew out of or deeper insights such as self-discovery and learning what we stand for in life and tough situations. The complexity of this experience may vary for different people and is often a harder concept to fully grasp for ourselves but leads to shaping who we are and what differentiates us as human beings. To demonstrate, sexual orientation and gender identification has been a complicated journey for some to overcome. In the movie, Boys Don’t Cry, Brandon Teena struggles with these notions since he is biologically a female but would rather identify as a male. Teena undergoes a self makeover and ultimately changes her name into Brandon Teena from Teena Brandon. Although there are a variety of factors that attribute to his decision, including living in a small town with virtually nothing to do and no room for growth as well as having a carefree attitude full of law breaking and making poor choices, he ultimately just identifies as a male and is interested in women. In the film Brandon meets a woman, Lana, he begins to feel attracted to and who he deceives until one day he is discovered after he has been arrested and is put into the women’s jail raising many questions. Eventually he...
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...Boys Don’t Cry The movie Boys Don’t Cry is a great movie with a very emotional storyline. I believe this movie showed that being transgender is not as uncommon as many people think it to be. Also, it illustrates the fact that even though someone is transgender it doesn’t make them any less of a human being. After discussing the movie with some of my classmates, I realized we had different feelings towards the movie. There were some things that didn’t quite make sense to them, but made perfect sense to me. For example, one of my classmates could not understand why Brandon continued to lie and deceive everyone. She thought if Brandon would have been honest from the beginning then he might still be alive. However, I disagree because I feel that Brandon wasn’t being dishonest to trick people or hurt others; I feel that he really thought of himself as a boy, so to him it wasn’t lying. Brandon was just trying to start over fresh in a new place and didn’t want to bring his past with him. I believe Brandon waited so long to come out because he knew he would not be accepted by his family. The movie showed how unsupportive his cousin was about his decision to become a boy. I truly believe that Brandon moved to another town to have a fresh start at life; there he had a greater chance of being accepted the way he was. Even after Brandon’s death his family still showed how unsupportive of him they were by putting, “Teena Brandon, loving daughter and friend” on his headstone. As...
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...Betty Waltermire Crime and Criminology JUS-110 January 18, 2014 Sexuality and Hate Crimes A hate crime is an act of abusing an individual because they are convenient, vulnerable targets incapable of fighting back or will not fight back. People in this category may include homeless, gay men, lesbian women, transgender, transsexuals, and transvestites. These are specific crimes that drive a person by violence or a strong and selfish desire to severely injure or kill a person because of who they are or what they stand for. From coast to coast and throughout America’s heartland the murders of innocent people are occurring because they are different. They may or may not look any different than anyone else in your school, in college, at work or your neighbor. They are our sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, cousins, mothers, fathers that are gay, lesbian, transgender, transsexual that are being targeted, beaten severely, and killed. Anna Marie Lambert drove up the driveway to the rented farmhouse to visit her daughter and grandson. Inside the house she found the grisly, brutal, bloody scene and called the police. She took the grandson away from the bedroom and out to the kitchen away from the bodies. The male on the living room couch was identified as Phillip DeVine, 19. In the bedroom was the body of her daughter Lisa Lambert, 24, who was partly under the covers. The third...
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...This business letter is an example of Full Block letter style without letterhead. There are no indented lines, and it is produced on plain stationary without letterhead. Like all completed business letters, this one was centered on the page before it was printed. In other words, the distance from the first line of print to the top edge of the paper is adjusted to equal the distance from the last line to the bottom of the page. The font style is Times New Roman, size 12. The margins are 1.25”. These are default settings and should be used unless instructed otherwise. Entertainment International 1357 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angles, CA 90210 November 11, 2015 Mr. Alberto Cantu Reservations Manager McAllen Civic Center 245 12th Ave. McAllen, TX 78504 Dear Mr. Cantu: This letter is prepared in Full Block style, so all the lines begin at the left margin; there are no indentions. Full Block style is the most streamlined letter format because it eliminates the need to indent paragraphs. Always use a justified left margin for letters and memos. This lets the computer randomly determine the end point of each line and results in a more natural looking document. Do not justify the right margin. When keying in a complimentary closing, only the first word is capitalized. Note how the closing of this letter is typed, for example. Pretend this letter is accompanied by a booklet. Whenever anything is enclosed with a letter, indicate this at the bottom of the letter. Sincerely yours, ...
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...FEAR: an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous. In his book Never Cry Wolf (1963) the author, Mowat Farley is showing us a different side to the wolves. At the beginning of the book Mowat hears lots of rumors about the wolves through the people in Churchill giving him a natural fear of the wolves. As he continued his exploration of the Canadian North and his study of the relationship between caribou and wolves he learned more than he could ever imagine. To show his knowledge of the wolves he used the rhetorical strategies pathos to appeal to humor and personification. First, In the book Mowat uses pathos to show us the wolves innocence. He starts off by giving us the emotion of fear. When Mowat...
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...Essay: Portrayal of Mothers and Motherhood Motherhood is a big task for mothers to go through. When women become mothers, they go through a lot of changes such as women after become mothers become more responsible, physical changes, etc. Motherhood is a mechanical set of duty and feelings that starts from the pregnancy to the baby birth (Akujobi, 2011). Becoming mother is a great experience that is shaped by culture and social perspective. Mothers losses their freedom, independency as when they get attached to their baby. Mothers need to compromise on many things like for example sacrificing their sleep, their food, their body, their autonomy and many other things. Motherhood images differ from culture to culture, as they filter through our worlds. Mothers though have very huge responsibilities as to bring up their children, to make them learn the language and the culture where a child belongs to but they are portrayed as the criticized figure or nonexistent. Motherhood representations is everywhere, could be good or bad and it could be empowering or being slave. Motherhood has now become such controversial topic that in the twentieth century all the feminist are talking about being mothers, experiencing mother hood and the categories of motherhood. In America there are five categories of mothers (Leary, 2008). 1) Self-absorbed who prefers independency; feels that their children are burden on them and want to achieve their personal pleasures rather than keeping care of their...
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...When My Sister Passed Away By:Adaih Assel-Weaver “Come on Amber,smile.” I heard my Uncle Alec shout from the bedroom. My Mom got so furious that she screamed”I’m going for a walk!” She stumbled out of bed,snatched my sister out of bed and left. I started to go to bed after my Mom left and I fell asleep. My Mom was still out for a walk when I fell asleep. I was awoken at 1:00am to get told that we have to go to the hospital. In my head I was thinking what are all of these police doing here? We didn’t leave until about an hour after I woke up because of the ambulance and police. Finally after the police and ambulance left, my family and I went to the hospital. On the way to the hospital we were told that Josslyn was on life-support,but the doctors took her off. Everybody started to cry when the doctor came in and broke the terrible news to us that Josslyn had passed. T tried to stay strong and not cry,but it just hit me,my stomach started to hurt really bad,cramps everywhere,I really felt like I was going to throw up and I just started to cry. Then we went home,the cops were still there and they had to search the house so we went down to our church. My Pastor wanted to know what had happened. My Grandma Charla told him. He was very shocked,I could tell. He felt very sorry and also very sad. I didn’t go to school that day. I was up almost all day and almost all night. A week later we had a funeral for her. When we went to the funeral everybody was crying...
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...hard time dealing with falling asleep. Nathan is driving on the highway in a winter day. A winter morning day on a lonely highway; which represents everything seems to be death in this time of the year. In this winter weather, any carelessness could lead to death. Meanwhile, Nathan goes over the rumble strips; which purpose is to wake up tired driver. He has been driving for long hours and his body is so tired that is difficult for him to keep his eyes open. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), "each year, more than 100,000 police-reported car accidents result from drivers who fall asleep. Of those, more than 1,600 cause fatalities, and more than 72,000 cause serious injuries. Because not everyone reports all sleep-caused accidents, the actual number is probably much higher". Stress, overwork, personal problems, long drives, alcohol, and medications are some reasons why drivers fall asleep. While many of those who fall asleep are lucky to escape accidents, there are still thousands who aren't as fortunate. It's usually just a matter of time before a driver who falls asleep at the wheel ends up causing an accident. It seems that Nathan is not consider about the statistics; to pull up for a moment to replace some hours of sleep. Unless, For a cautious person that will be the best option to take after went over the rumble strips. Whatever is making Nathan keep driving eventually may cause an accident if he falls asleep. Nathan is being selfish throughout...
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...A Family on the Outside. By: Estefania Calvet May 18, 2013. World Civilization History Professor Happel One day on a beautiful mountaintop on the Greek mountains was a Young lady crying for help. She was trying to get to the nearest town, the first one she could find. She needed help as soon as possible. She had pain starting from her back, through her stomach, and into her pelvis. She was all wet, and cold and her pain was unbearable. She was in labor. She had been dropped in the woods as she was migrating from Egypt in order to find a better life in Greece. She was on a horse with a group of migrants who were also traveling and she fell asleep and fell. She had been unconscious for over a day now, and woke up because she had gone into labor. She would yell and no one could hear her. The pain she was under was more than she could handle. The nearest city was Athens, but the travel was long. It had been more that 8 hours and she was still in pain, and no one had come for help. Suddenly a tall woman, wrapped in a white draped observed the Nila, the woman in labor. The woman began talking to her asking her what was wrong. When Nila told her she was in labor she ran. After an hour, the woman came back with two other men. These men were carrying a long flat shaped wood that they were going to use to carry her. They asked Nila to be calm and told her everything was going to be all right. The next morning everything seemed calmed for Nila. She was awakening from the deepest...
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...Everything stuck to him I went to Milan from Christmas and I really want to know what it was like when I was a child. “I asked my father, tell me what it was like”, as i sip the Strega, waiting for him to answer me. “ That was along time ago”, my father said. “almost twenty years.” “You can remember”, I say as he is thinking of the story he is going to tell. “ I could tell you about something that happened, They were kids themselves, but they were crazy in love, this eighteen-year-old boy and this seventeen-year-old girl when they married. Not all that long afterwards they had a daughter. The baby came along in late November during a cold spell that just happened to coincide with the peak of the waterfowl season. The boy loved to hunt, you see. That’s part of it. The boy and girl, husband and wife, father and mother, they lived in a little apartment under a dentist’s office. Each night they cleaned the dentist’s place upstairs in exchange for rent and utilities. In summer they were expected to maintain the lawn and the flowers. In winter the boy shoveled snow and spread rock salt on the walks. Are you still with me? Are you getting the picture? I am, she says. That’s good, he says. So one day the dentist finds out they were using his letterhead for their personal correspondence. But that’s another story. He gets up from his chair and looks out the window. He sees the tile rooftops and the snow that is falling steadily on them. Tell the story, she says. The two...
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...Writing in his diary in 1801, Lockwood describes his first days as a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, an isolated manor in thinly populated Yorkshire. Shortly after arriving at the Grange, he pays a visit to his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, a surly, dark man living in a manor called Wuthering Heights—“wuthering” being a local adjective used to describe the fierce and wild winds that blow during storms on the moors. During the visit, Heathcliff seems not to trust Lockwood, and leaves him alone in a room with a group of snarling dogs. Lockwood is saved from the hounds by a ruddy-cheeked housekeeper. When Heathcliff returns, Lockwood is angry, but eventually warms toward his taciturn host, and—though he hardly feels that he has been welcomed at Wuthering Heights—he volunteers to visit again the next day. Summary: Chapter II On a chilly afternoon not long after his first visit, Lockwood plans to lounge before the fire in his study, but he finds a servant dustily sweeping out the fireplace there, so instead he makes the four-mile walk to Wuthering Heights, arriving just as a light snow begins to fall. He knocks, but no one lets him in, and Joseph, an old servant who speaks with a thick Yorkshire accent, calls out from the barn that Heathcliff is not in the house. Eventually a rough-looking young man comes to let him in, and Lockwood goes into a sitting room where he finds a beautiful girl seated beside a fire. Lockwood assumes she is Heathcliff’s wife. He tries to make conversation...
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